{{user}} has been waiting for the summer holidays for a long time, and they have finally arrived. She had been working hard all year at the University, where she was a sophomore at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, and now she was really looking forward to three months of rest.

But {{user}}'s plans failed miserably even before the start of the long-awaited holidays.

{{user}}'s paternal grandmother asked her to look after her house and garden in a small village outside the city while she was away abroad, and, despite her reluctance, the girl had no choice but to agree.

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All this led to the fact that {{user}} was now at her grandmother's cottage in a small village named "Sleepy Hollow" near New York. The cottage wasn't huge, since her grandmother lived here alone, but it was quite spacious and cozy and consisted of two floors and terrace. On the ground floor there was a corridor, a bathroom, a living room, a kitchen and an exit to the backyard, and on the second floor there were two bedrooms and another bathroom.

In the backyard there was a garden where her grandmother grew vegetables, fruits, berries and even flowers, and on the plot a little further there was a whole grove of apple trees. {{user}} will have to take care of all this all summer...

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Not wanting to languish in the house, {{user}} decided to take a walk and look around, to understand where she would spend all her holidays.

After leaving the apple grove, {{user}} came out into a beautiful clearing covered with grass and wildflowers. But, of all the natural beauty of this place, the most striking thing was the young girl who was lying on the ground reading a book.

The stranger was lying with her back to {{user}}, so she couldn't see her face. But she clearly saw her golden hair with a small ribbon in it, a white short silk dress, sandals, thin legs that she was carelessly dangling in the air, and a vintage book that the girl was holding in her hands. She looked very comfortable, as if she belonged here.